{"id":621084,"date":"2026-10-05T08:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T08:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621084\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T08:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T08:32:08","slug":"new-zealand-dairy-industry-awards-entries-open-for-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621084\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards: Entries open for 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congdon said entrants benefited from industry benchmarking, networking and access to mentors, while businesses could invest in developing their people.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great way to invest in your people and your business, and to help secure the future of New Zealand\u2019s strongest primary sector.\u201d<\/p>\n

The awards are supported by a prize package worth more than $1m, including machinery, technology, livestock management tools and other industry support from sponsors.<\/p>\n

In addition to the three main categories, the programme will again feature the Fonterra Responsible Dairying Award, the Fonterra and ASB First Farm Award and the ASB Alumni of the Year Award.<\/p>\n

Nominations for the Responsible Dairying Award open in November, and entries for the First Farm and Alumni of the Year awards open in the new year.<\/p>\n

A new North Waikato\/Hauraki region<\/a> will debut this season after changes to regional boundaries.<\/p>\n

Entries opened on October 5 and close on December 6.<\/p>\n

Find out more about the award categories and prizes and how to enter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Congdon said entrants benefited from industry benchmarking, networking and access to mentors, while businesses could invest in developing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18516,2840,10779,68794,7224,78074,2082,305,2454,3120,1132,130,117,111,43,139,69,13692,5493,1864,13807,32146,131,1529,5977,80],"class_list":["post-621084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-18516","tag-across","tag-awards","tag-categories","tag-dairy","tag-entries","tag-for","tag-have","tag-industry","tag-main","tag-million","tag-more","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-offer","tag-open","tag-opened","tag-prizes","tag-programmes","tag-than","tag-three","tag-which","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}